No School November 5th Please do not forget! There is no school for students, Tuesday November 5th. November 5th is Election Day! Remember, Democracy is a verb. This Week's Learning TargetsMath: This week, students will be exploring multiplying and dividing with decimal numbers. Students will use visual models of decimal numbers to support their thinking. Students will practice separating physical decimal models into multiple groups and using repeated subtraction to remove decimal amounts from a total amount.
Support At Home: Allow the student to practice making change at the grocery store. Have the student record the list of items purchased at the grocery store. The student can total the amount by hand to find the subtotal for the shopping trip. Reading: Students will practice identifying and comparing informational text structures. This skill is important because it allows students to identify common patterns in ways that materials are presented. When students begin to notice these patterns while reading, they are able to make connections and understand the relationship between concepts. This helps them retain the information and helps develop critical thinking skills. Support At Home: Allow students to read newspaper articles or informational magazine articles. Have students identify the text structures the author uses. Students can also look for cause and effect relationships, compare and contrast relationships, sequences, and problem and solution relationships. Writing: We have been practicing using various text structures for informational writing. Students have written paragraphs in the cause and effect, compare and contrast, and chronological order text structure. This week, students will begin working on their first research project. We will cover the basics of research, selecting a topic, and creating a basic bibliography (source list). Students may begin writing this week if time allows. Students will be required to have a least 1 print based source, like a book or an encyclopedia. The overall unit will probably take us about 4 weeks to complete. During that time students should write at least a five paragraph essay, but no more than 1,200 words. Following this unit, students will work on creating multiple evidence based essays for the rest of the quarter. Support At Home: Take your student to the public library so they have access to additional materials. Students may use their Cobb County Student ID as their library card. Have your student multiple books on their topic. You can help them look for different types of relationships between the text presented, like cause and effect, compare and contrast, or problem and solution. Students also should be able to fully describe their topic as well. Social Studies: Students will finish up their unit on the Turn of the Century, and students will begin their unit on WWI and the Roaring 20s. This week will focus on the causes of WWI and how the United States became involved in the conflict. Support At Home: Subscribe to the Oversimplified channel on Youtube. Allow students to watch the videos on WWI at home. The videos are broken into pt.1 and pt.2 and in total are about fifteen minutes long. Discuss what your student has learned together. Science: This week students will dig deeper into plant and animal classification. Students will create a hierarchy to show how the branches of classification are related to one another as well as a table to help them classify animals and plants themselves. Support At Home: Watch the Happy Learning Videos on the classification page together. Discuss the similarities and differences between different categories (eg. Birds and Reptiles). Reminders:
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